North East names on Queen’s list
THEIR dedication to their work has been second to none and they have all made significant differences to so many lives.
Now, this dedicated bunch from the North East have been recognised by royalty after being named in the Queen’s birthday honours list.
From famous to ordinary people, here are the region’s medal recipients.
CBE
■■Kate Adie, OBE. Journalist and radio Presenter. For services to media. (Dorset) ■■Professor Christoffel Hendrik Brink. Emeritus vice-chancellor, Newcastle University. For services to higher education. (Tynemouth) ■■Dr Colin Herron. Managing director, Zero Carbon Futures. For services to business and to the renewable energy sector. (Whitley Bay) ■■Jenny Margaret Saunders, OBE. Formerly chief executive, National Energy Action. For services to Tackling Fuel Poverty. (Newcastle upon Tyne) ■■David Leslie Wood. Councillor, Newcastle City Council. For political and public service. (Newcastle Upon Tyne) ■■Jan Thirlaway. Transformation and planning lead, Department for Work and Pensions. For services to pensions operations. (Peterlee) ■■Heidi Mottram, chief executive of Northumbrian Water Group, for services to the water industry and business community. (North Yorkshire)
OBE
■■Linda Arkley. For political service in the North East of England. (North Shields) ■■Jermain Colin Defoe. Footballer. For services to the Jermain Defoe Foundation. (Hertfordshire) ■■Prof James Law. Professor of speech and language science, Newcastle University. For services to speech and language therapy. (Bridge of Allan, Stirling and Falkirk) ■■Robert Symonds. Chair, WISE Academies Trust. For services to education. (Sunderland) ■■Neil Kenneth Warwick. Business Development Partner, Square One Law. For services to the economy and to young people in the North East. (Newcastle upon Tyne) ■■Andrew John Davison. For services to the environment, to culture and to the community in North East England. (Northumberland) ■■Prof David Emrys Jeffreys Jones. Dean for faculty trainees, National Institute for Health Research, and professor of liver immunology, Newcastle University. For services to liver disease medicine and training. (Ingoe)
MBE
■■Kenneth William Bremner. Chief executive, South Tyneside and City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trusts. For services to NHS leadership. (Ponteland, Northumberland) ■■Stephen Cochrane. Founder and managing director, Psyche Department Store. For services to the economy and to regeneration in Middlesbrough. (Yarm) ■■Emily Katherine Cox. (Mrs. Cooney) director, public affairs, Virgin Money. For services to gender diversity in financial services. (Gateshead) ■■Mohammed Ishaq, director, The Punjab Kitchen Ltd. For services to innovation and to the economy in Tyne and Wear. (Washington) ■■Albert Pattison, founder, Hart Biologicals. For services to international trade and to the economy in the Tees Valley and to charity. (Hartlepool) ■■Douglas Shearer. Principal social worker, Team Fostering, North Shields, Tyne and Wear. For services to social work. (Chesterle-Street) ■■Ronald Bruce Wilson. Formerly company secretary, Border Union Agricultural Society. For services to agriculture and to the community in the Scottish Borders and North Northumberland. (Kelso) ■■Beverley Emma Dean. Founder, Special iApps. For services to exports in educational technology for people with learning disabilities. (Shincliffe, Durham) ■■Ray Noble, director, Solar BIPV Ltd. For services to Renewable Energy. (Consett)
BEM
■■Gordon Hawkins. For services for the Boys’ Brigade and to the community in West Moor, Tyne and Wear. (Newcastle upon Tyne) ■■Colin Boyd. For services to young people in West Allotment, Northumberland. (Alnwick) ■■Hugh William Crawford. Telephony adviser. For services to the community in County Durham through martial arts. (Peterlee) ■■Elsie May Davies. For services to disadvantaged people in County Durham. (Durham) ■■Susan Lewis. Paediatric epilepsy specialist nurse, County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust. For services to Nursing. (Chester-le-Street) ■■Mary Anne Richardson. District nursing sister, County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust. For services to Patient Care. (Sacriston) ■■Enrico Fortunato Capaldi. For services to charity and to the community on Teesside. (North Yorkshire)